Retold myths & folktales

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Asian myths

1997
Presents retelling of fifteen classic Asian myths about gods and humans, love, friends and neighbors, and other topics.

World myths

1993
Presents a collection of eight adapted myths from around the world including the Egyptian story of Osiris and the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh and provides footnotes on each story and maps on the region each story was told.

Northern European myths

1994
Presents a collection of eight myths that represent Northern European folklore and culture from the Middle Ages and includes Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf, The Death of King Arthur, and Thor the Bride.

Retold Mexican American folktales

Mexican American folktales
1998
Presents adaptations of eight Mexican American folktales, telling of ghosts and hauntings, tricksters, right and wrong, and romance.

African-American folktales

1997
Presents retellings of fourteen African-American folktales on the themes of friendship, tricksters, right and wrong, and how and why.

Classic myths

1990
Presents illustrated retellings of eight Greek myths featuring such characters as Prometheus, Jason, and Odysseus, and includes vocabulary lists, maps of ancient Greece, and a table of Greek and Roman god and hero names.

African myths

1993
Presents retellings of eighteen African myths of creation, death, gods and mortals, tricksters, how and why, and right and wrong.
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